Show A I f I r H E Of 5 A i pi Do 1 I COMMUNITY FAMILIARITY rAl BREEDS CIVIC CONTEMPT CO A lady wrote me a letter recently in 1 which she asked What do you vou mean when you s Y 6 iy one of he J e monkey wrenches in m mar mal chinery is contemptuous familiar familiar- familiarity ity I understand she co what you mean by m monkey wrenches but I don donit dont t get his get et hiS con con Contemptuous familiar y is 15 the I of or Ines- Ines It Itis Itis i is the blindfold that kee you from fromI I seeing the ear ar muffs that keep you from hearing opportunity that is to the right to bh the left above and be- be below below be below low you right in Bountiful Whenever the civic curbs clubs of your community perform a t task sk for the good of all it causes ou to say Well they re are suppose supposed to do It therefore they deserve n nd thanks for forI forit forit I it I editor And when hen your newspaper per newsy per e t r takes up an issue vital t el fare el-fare el- el elare fare are and the welfare of your bors bors you jOU ou are Me moved toay to ff He lie lS is paid to do doit he it-he it he has an axe to grind 1 When local busing men en e say All An we e sk sl is a chance to serve serie ser e you It causes cause you vou ou to Why say should we wc wedo wedo do them any fa favors ors wha whai have they ever done for ui us f It fIt is that which puts the idea m in your jour head that there nothing as as nothing for you ou in m Bou ul and to be e a something or do som ing you vou ou ha haJe ha c to go else else- elsewhere elsewhere v where here tb that which causes cause's you to feel that Bountiful is not BIG UIG enough nou h for forI I YOU wh n the of the matt matter r iv 14 th t Bountiful i Just t as big as YOU make mate it To be ion con on familiar II keeps you down belittles you and be- be be belittles belittles littles Bountiful ul and causes all wide wide- wideawake I awake awak people who know of you and I I I with whom v you come in contact to fee feeA orry rry for and y sou ou Con Con rIty is worse than thana rS a money wrench in the machinery machinery- it is a i playing havoc with everywhere You You know the story of the man who ho moved may away because ose it was such sucha a nuisance to pick UD no the stones full of black lumps lump that l littered hIs field fi ld and aril hindered his plo plowing mg each soling 01 m Todio that field is the larg largest est diamond mine mme in m the world Al- Al Also Al Also so the man who sold his farm be- be because because be because cause there thereas was as so much oily scum on en the creek the stock could not today drink today one on one of the country's finest oil fields Both of these men were infected ld with contemptuous fr For years a pretty m of cleat pure water uter from the side of i 1 i rock walled rock hillside within with with- th- th J in rT four blocks of the center of a community of some people hun hun- hundreds Hun Hundreds of local citizens saw it lt every everyday everyday everyday Hun I day many passing it by some stop stop- stopping stopping stopping ping to drink of it lt A stranger came one day saw aw and drank but he dId not pass He is a millionaire today through the sale of that water In bottles Se Several eral hundred acres of sw mp I Iland wil- wil willows lows wil-lows land 0 overgrown with worthless WIll 10 lows s were joyfully unloaded by local people onto a sucker who now IS worth his weight in gold through h resale of the selfsame timber to a reed furniture manufacturer I Look around you Sec See hear and andI I recognize the advantage e of Bountiful They are there if you will but take advantage of them Copyright themI 1929 A D Stone Re- Re Re Reproduction I whole in production in m or inI part I ThiS Town Doctor art article cle n is pub pub-I pub by the th th er in i WIth the Bount Bountiful LIons Liona club he 1 i |